[BNM] Regex help, remove p tags and all within

[delarge]

Thanks David, that .*? option worked a treat - in this case there are no new
lines, so we're winners!

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 1:26 AM, David Pashley <david at davidpashley.com>
wrote:

> On Apr 30, 2008 at 23:31, delarge praised the llamas by saying:
> > Yo yo BNM
> >
> > I'm no regex expert - and I need to do this one thing, I have read up n
> some
> > regex basics, but can't seem to find this scenario...
> >
> > I need to replace or rather delete everything that's between <p> tags...
> >
> > So this:
> > -------------------------------------
> > <a href="http://website.com/page/35466"><img src="
> > http://website.com/images/amazingpic.jpg" /></a>
> > <p>Once upon a time <a href="">I went</a> to see a quaint quail.</p>
> > <p class="words"><a href="/words/yo">Yo</a> <a
> > href="/words/sugar">sugar</a></p>
> > -------------------------------------
> >
> > Becomes just:
> > -------------------------------------
> > <a href="http://website.com/page/35466"><img src="
> > http://website.com/images/amazingpic.jpg" /></a>
> > -------------------------------------
> >
> > This is for manuipulating an rss feed in Yahoo Pipes, so it's not a PHP
> > scenario or similar... I have been able to delete the p tags themselves,
> but
> > not what is contained within them, which changes with every item.
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> A naive solution would be /<p>.*?<\/p>// however it's likely that you
> will have to deal with newlines. Traditionally a regex will only go up
> to the end of a line and you need to tell it to do a multiline regex. In
> perl you'd do this using the s option (s/foo/bar/s) but I don't know if
> yahoo pipes has that option. Given that Yahoo Pipes is dealing with rss,
> don't they have the option of running xslt against feeds? That would be
> a better way of doing it.
>
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> David Pashley
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